Vera said paying students cannot continue for a long time, but many absent students lacked dependable housing or were helping to support their families. " The money is the hook that got them in the door."
In March last year 20,000 school children in the Brazilian city of Vitoria da Conquista had radio tags sewn into their uniforms to help detect truants.
So 22% Are happy to drop that high school or are failing high school with absentee rates of greater than twenty five percent they live in neighborhoods where there are drugs guns shootings.
Every small steps counts, because brushing this topic under the carpet perpetuates lack of access to sanitary absorbents, ignorance of menstrual health issues, school absenteeism, infection and so much more.